Vascular Biology 2008

April 5-9, 2008 - San Diego, CA

this meeting is held in conjunction with the American Society for Investigative Pathology
at Experimental Biology 2008

 

Abstract deadline is November 7, 2007
For all meeting information go to the meeting web site

 

Program Committee:
Chair: Joyce Bischoff, Children's Hospital, Boston
Tim Hla, University of Connecticut; Dean Li, University of Utah; David Milstone, Harvard Medical School; William Muller, Northwestern University; Christiana Ruhrberg, University College London, UK

Preliminary Program:
Blood Vessel Club:  Stem/progenitor cells - Contributions to blood vessel assembly and repair.
(co-sponsored with the American Society for Investigative Pathology)
Saturday, April 5, 2008 – 2:00-4:00pm 
Chair: David Milstone, Harvard Medical School and Co-chair: Joyce Bischoff, Children's Hospital, Boston
The format will consist of two invited speakers and short talk “blitzes”

Welcome Reception/Highlighting Trainee Research
Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 6:15-7:30 pm

Neurovascular connections/interactions (co-sponsored with the American Association of Neuropathologists)
Sunday, April 6, 2008 – 2:00-5:00pm
Chairs: Jeffrey A. Golden,  Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
and Christiana Ruhrberg, University College London, UK
Speakers:
Peter Carmeliet, University of Leuven
    The Neuro-Vascular link in health and disease: from genetic insights to therapeutic perspectives
Christiana Ruhrberg, University College London
    VEGF in the nervous system: co-patterning of blood vessels, neurons and glia
Chenghua Gu, Harvard Medical School
    The molecular mechanisms of axon and vascular guidance
David Zagzag, New York University
    Hypoxia-induced angiogenesis and brain invasion in gliomas
Additional talks will be included from abstract submissions

--Plan to attend AAA's related session (date to be determined):
        Crosstalk and codependence between neural and vascular systems
            Chair: Nicole Ward, Case Western Reserve University
                Yosuke Mukoyama, National Institutes of Health
                    Control of blood vessel fate & branching pattern by nerve-derived signals
                Anne Eichmann, Collège de France
                    Neuronal molecules involved in blood vessel branching
                Adam Puche, University of Maryland
                    Migrating the adult brain: vascular & ECM mediated?
                S. Thomas Carmichael, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
                    A Neurovascular niche for neurogenesis after stroke

Of special note:
    Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
        will give the ASIP Rous-Whipple Award Lecture:
            Vascular Endothelium in the Post Genomic Era: New Insights into its Pathobiology
            Sunday, April 6, 5:00pm
    Judah Folkman, Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
        will give the AAA Keynote Lecture:
            Anatomical Differences in Response to Angiogenic Stimuli
            Sunday, April 6, 6:15pm

Vascular Cell Dysfunction in Disease
Chair: Tim Hla, University of Connecticut
Monday April 7, 2008  - 8:30 - 11:30 am
Speakers:
Susan Quaggin, University of Toronto
    Podocyte-endothelial interactions and angiogenic factors in glomerular development and disease.
Joyce Bischoff, Children's Hospital, Boston
    Hemangioma, an endothelial tumor of infancy, arises from a multipotential stem cell
Mukesh Jain, Case Cardiovascular Research Institute, Cleveland, OH
    Kruppel-like factors in vascular pathophysiology
Gabriele Bergers, University of California, San Francisco
    Vascular progenitor cells in tumors
Additional talks will be included from abstract submissions

Earl P. Benditt Award Presentation and Lecture: 
Shaun Coughlin, University of California, San Francisco
Monday, April 7 at 5pm
    Protease-activated receptors in vascular biology

The Immune System in Vascular Diseases
Chair: Klaus Ley, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Tuesday April 8, 2008 – 8:30-11:30am
Speakers:
Klaus Ley, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
    Lymphocyte and monocyte homing to the arterial wall
Arjan Griffioen – University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Angiogenesis inhibition promotes an anti-tumor immune response.
Z. Mallat, Center for Cardiovascular Research, INSERM, Paris, France
    T cell regulation in atherosclerosis and related vascular diseases
Joseph Witztum, University of California, San Diego
    Oxidation-specific epitopes are a major target of innate natural antibodies
Additional talks will be included from abstract submission

Molecular engines that regulate epithelial and endothelial junctions.
(co-sponsored with the American Society for Investigative Pathology)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 – 2:00-5:00pm
Chairs: William Muller, Northwestern University and Andrei Ivanov, Emory University
Speakers:
Albert B. Reynolds, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University.
    Role of p120-catenin in regulation of epithelial junctions.
Keith Burridge, UNC Chapel Hill
    Regulation of endothelial permeability by small GTPases.
Tony Pawson, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
    Rich-1 and Angiomotin as novel regulators of epithelial tight junctions.
Fitzroy Curry, University of California, Davis
    Determinants of microvascular permeability in vivo.

Poster Sessions and Mini-symposia will be disbursed throughout the meeting.